Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK
Name: | CLEMENTS, NATHANIEL |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK |
Date: | 1734-1777 |
Nature: | NC involved in and, from 1752, responsible for improvements to landscaping. |
Refs: | A.P.W. Malcomson, Nathaniel Clements, 1705-77. Politics, fashion and architecture in mid-eighteenth-century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2015),85-105. |
Name: | GIBSON, WILLIAM [3] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK |
Date: | 1777ca |
Nature: | WG engaged in works in same. |
Refs: | E.McP., citing 'H of C Index a/cs & papers no 2137'. |
Name: | BURTON, DECIMUS # |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK |
Date: | 1832-1849 |
Nature: | Improvements, lodges &c. |
Refs: |
Plans & letters in OPW; plans in PRO MPD141, also PRO Guide to Maps 3883; designs for lodges in NLI Portfolio 26; Colvin; 19 drawings of lodges, dated 1836-9, in NLI, A.D. 2111-2129; Decimus Burton 1800-1881 (exhibition catalogue, Institution of Landscape Horticulture of Ireland and OPW, 1988) contains copy of Burton's report on the Park and suggestions for its improvement, 27 Sep 1834; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 291,296,300,309-11,. |
Name: | SMITH, THOMAS [4] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK |
Date: | 1903p |
Nature: | TS responsible for ornamental planting from 1903 onwards. |
Refs: | Alan Grills, 'A famous Irish nursery: Daisy Hill Nurseries, Newry', Moorea: Journal of the Irish Garden Plant Society 10 (1993),4. |